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Richard Branson's Plans In America And Space In The Age Of Expensive Oil

Fortune.com | Richard Siklos | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Virgin, Virgin Galactic, Economy, Richard Branson, Oil Prices, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin America, Business News

LOS ANGELES (Fortune) -- So here we were at 6:20 Monday morning at Los Angeles International Airport. Despite the hour, a disc jockey played pulsing c...

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Virgin Galactic Mothership Unveiled by Branson (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Posted 07.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Virgin Galactic, Space, Richard Branson, Space Tourism, Technology, Business News

Scroll down for photos and video. From the AP: MOJAVE, Calif. - Virgin Galactic is giving the world a glimpse of its secret space tourism program. ...

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Branson To Partially Unveil Commercial Spaceship On Monday

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 07.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Space Race, Space Tourism, Space Tourists, Richard Branson, Virgin, Richard Branson Space Tourism, Home News

LOS ANGELES — Aerospace engineers have been holed up in a Mojave Desert hangar for four years, fashioning a commercial spaceship to loft rich to...

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The Notable And Notorious -- On Bicycles!

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Al Sharpton, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Ron Paul, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, David Beckham Carbon Footprint, Save the Environment, How to Save Money, Heidi Montag, Lindsay Lohan Rehab, David Beckham, Al Sharpton Barack Obama, Virgin Green Fund, Bike, Albert Einstein, Brangelina, Celebrities Biking, Guy Ritchie, Bill Clinton, Spencer Pratt, Lindsay Lohan, Michael Bloomberg, Richard Branson, Daryl Hannah, Barack Obama, Pamela Anderson, Madonna Workout, Bike Culture, Virgin Green Fund Filings, Biking, Angelina Jolie Photos, Obama Bike Ride, Heidi Montag Spencer Pratt, Lindsay Lohan Breasts, Environment, Al Sharpton Bike, Hillary Clinton, Tina Fey, Save Money, Green Celebrities, Green Living, Green News

Inspired by such high-profile cyclists as Obama, Fey and Einstein, I've set to work amassing a comprehensive archive of 100 people we know, love--perhaps even despise--atop the bike.

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Let's Follow Richard Branson's Green Example

Stefan Roberts | Posted 07.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Virgin Atlantic, Richard Branson, Richard Branson Resort, Virgin Group, Environment, British Virgin Islands, Virgin Green Fund Filings, Green Business, Virgin Earth Prize, Virgin Green Fund, Green News

What Branson intends is not just a huge luxury resort. It is a huge GREEN luxury resort. The whole island will be powered by wind and hydro power, and aims to be completely and utterly carbon-neutral.

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Richard Branson Plans Caribbean Eco-Resort

Posted 07.03.2008 | Green

Read More: Richard Branson, Eco-Tourism, Green Tourism, Green Vacation, Sustainable Vacation, Richard Branson Hotel, Richard Branson Resort, Caribbean, Caribbean Eco-Getaway, Green News

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Virgin's Green Investment Fund Gets First $199 Million

Financial Times | Chris Hughes | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Virgin, Calpers, Virgin Green Fund Filings, VGF, Richard Branson, Virgin Group, Virgin Green Fund, Virgin Investment Fund, Green News

Wolverhampton City Council and Calpers, the influential Californian pension fund, have emerged as some of the maiden investors in Virgin Group's first...

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Richard Branson: Airlines Should Pay Emissions Tax

AP | ELIANE ENGELER | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Virgin Airlines, Emissions, Global Warming, Climate Change, Richard Branson, Richard Branson Emissions Tax, Virgin Airlines Emissions Tax, Business News

GENEVA — Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson told a forum on climate change Tuesday that aviation is a dirty business and that airlines should...

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50-Year-Old Virgin Wants to Screw the Internet

Timothy Karr | Posted 04.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Video, Richard Branson, Neil Berkett, Media, Net Neutrality, Media News

Billionaire Richard Branson needs to call one of his boys out to the woodshed: his top man at Virgin Media stated his plans to undermine the basic freedoms upon which the Internet was built.

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Branson, Google Guys Pull A Fast One

Time.com | M.J. STEPHEY | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Sergey Brin, Richard Branson, Video, Larry Page, April Fool's Day, Google, Business News

From Time.com: Now that Google has effectively conquered Earth, the all-powerful Web giant is setting its sites on a new frontier: Mars. Calling it ...

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Branson On Stalking Sartre, Joining The Mile High Club, And Marrying A Google Guy

Details | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Richard Branson, Space, Virgin Mobile, Billionaires, Larry Page, Virgin Atlantic, Jean-Paul Sartre, Google, Business News

In this month's issue of Details magazine, Richard Branson, billionaire and renegade mogul, sounds off on a number of different issues. On his early...

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New Rocket Aims for Space Tourism Market

AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Virgin Atlantic, Xcor Aerospace, Richard Branson, Space Tourism, Branson Space Travel, Rocket Ship, Air Force Research Laboratory, Lynx, Business News

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Entrepreneurs of the new commercial space age plan to start test flights in 2010 of a practical four-engine rocket ship ...

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Richard Branson's Son Hired As "Green Ambassador"

Guardian | John Plunkett | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Kiss the Planet Green Initiative, Dog Sledding, Green Ambassador, Kiss Radio, Richard Branson, Kiss the Planet, Bauer Radio, Sam Branson, Sir Richard Branson, Branson Green Ambassador, Global Warning, Business News

Bauer Radio's dance music station Kiss has hired Sir Richard Branson's son Sam to be its "green ambassador", with him set to take part in a series of ...

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Branson Launches Online Charter Plane Service

Reuters | Posted 03.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Richard Branson, Vrigin Charter, Virgin Atlantic, Private Jets, Charter Planes, Business News

Richard Branson's first charter plane experience gave him the idea to start commercial airline company Virgin Atlantic Airways (VA.UL). Some 25 years...

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Can Richard Branson Save Aviation?

Amy Ziff | Posted 03.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Richard Branson, Bio-Diesel Flight, Virgin, Green Flight International, Carbon Footprint, Living News

Last week when I heard about Branson's latest feat -flying a 747 airplane from London to Amsterdam on 20 percent bio-diesel fuel - I had to say "Hallelujah!"

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Virgin Air Flying on Fumes?

Andrew Winston | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Richard Branson, Virgin Airlines, Biofuels, Business News

While money is being poured into working on all kinds of biofuels, we need parallel experimentation on what to do with that fuel.

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Virgin Flies Biofueled Jet

AP | THOMAS WAGNER | Posted 02.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Airlines, Richard Branson, Biofuels, Biofueled Jet, Virgin Jet Biofuels, Business News

LONDON — Virgin Atlantic carried out the world's first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with biofuel on Sunday in an effort to show it ca...

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The 60-plus Population: Living History

Carolyn Anderson | Posted 02.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Virgin Airlines, Aging, Social Security, Eye Health, Retirement, Richard Branson, Richard Branson the Elders, Age 65, Unretirement, Living News

The population between the ages of 60 and 100 is the most untapped resource in society.

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Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic Unveils First Spaceship

Huffington Post | Posted 01.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Virgin Galactic, Space Tourism, Richard Branson, Spaceflight, Spaceships, Space Tourists, Home News

The spaceflight division of Richard Branson's company, Virgin Galactic, unveiled it's proto-type for a spaceship that will carry tourists to the stars...

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Sir Richard Branson Tells Virgin Atlantic Strikers To Take A Hike

Times | Marcus Leroux | Posted 12.31.2007 | Business

Read More: Richard Branson, Virgin Atlantic Strikes, Virgin Atlantic, Unite Union, Baa, Business News

Sir Richard Branson has provoked outrage by telling Virgin Atlantic staff who are threatening to go on strike that they should "consider working elsew...

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Jimmy Fallon Marries Producer Girlfriend

AP | Posted 12.29.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Necker Island, Richard Branson, Jimmy Fallon Wedding, Jimmy Fallon Married, Jimmy Fallon, Drew Barrymore, Nancy Juvonen, Entertainment News

Longtime "Saturday Night Live" performer Jimmy Fallon and movie producer Nancy Juvonen were married in the Caribbean, a publicist announced Saturday. ...

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Branson's Virgin Group Picked To Save Northern Rock

Reuters | Steve Slater | Posted 11.26.2007 | Business

Read More: Virgin Group, Richard Branson, Bank of England, Northern Rock, Northern Rock Bailout, Business News

A consortium led by Richard Branson's Virgin Group has been picked as the preferred bidder to rescue Northern Rock and plans to repay 11 billion pound...

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Richard Branson Leaps Off Palms Hotel, Rips Pants

Daily Mail | Posted 10.11.2007 | Business

Read More: Marketing Stunts, Richard Branson, Palm Casino Hotel, Business News

It was not the most auspicious start for a new business venture - crashing into the side of a building in mid-air before the gaze of hundreds of journ...

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Branson Ditches Virgin Megastores

The Guardian (U.K.) | Owen Gibson | Posted 09.17.2007 | Home

Read More: Recording Industry, Richard Branson, Virgin, Virgin Megastores, Retail, Home News

Sir Richard Branson yesterday severed his last remaining link with the high street, offloading his Virgin Megastore chain at a time when record shops ...

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Spaceport America: Virgin Galactic Unveils Plans For Tourist Spaceport In New Mexico

Business Week | Dianna Dilworth | Posted 09.06.2007 | Home

Read More: Space, Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic, Virgin, Space Travel, Space Tourism, Space Shuttle, Home News

As NASA prepares to retire the space shuttle by the end of the decade, just in time for completion of the International Space Station, the tourism ind...

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